Cheryl Toman is Professor and Chair of the Department of French at the University of Alabama and the author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory (Lexington Books, 201...view moreCheryl Toman is Professor and Chair of the Department of French at the University of Alabama and the author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory (Lexington Books, 2016) and Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature (Summa, 2008). view less